PadMan is an initiative of the Giving Garage aimed at getting men to be deliberately involved in issues of humanity especially issues bothering on gender equality. Giving Garage’s PadMan initiative is adopting the United Nations’ #HeForShe model to encourage men to act in advocating and funding of girl/women causes. PadMan promotes loudly and unashamedly the role of good Menstrual Hygiene…

By Mark Tuschman In the middle of the night on April 14, 2014, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram broke into the hostels where 276 schoolgirls slept in the town of Chibok in north-east Northeast Nigeria. Corralled into trucks, the girls were held by gunpoint and abducted into the night. Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, later claimed that under Sharia law…